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Somatic Affective Talk and Touch is a healing modality that uses gentle touch and simple dialogue to raise awareness and offer choice. It IS possible for your mind and body to move together with greater ease and comfort.

Our minds are powerful and often override or rationalize why our physical body aches or why we feel the way we do… slowing down and paying attention to yourself, with a SATT practitioner to guide the journey, can be freeing and enlightening.

Gilly Thomas developed SATT to address the gap that exists when there is talk and no touch (mind = talk therapy) and when there is touch and no talk (body = physical therapies). This holistic approach is based on western medical science and eastern belief, through integration of alternative therapies. She developed a two year program training program so that others can also practice SATT.

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Welcome to the Somatic Affective Talk and Touch Approach. The bodymind therapeutic synthesis that occurs at the confluence of talk and touch.

Somatic = relating to the body
Affective = moods, feelings, attitudes
Talk = speech
Touch = contact
Approach = perspective

The approach guides people in a way to deepen their connection to themselves and offers them a way to expand into themselves. There is a  therapeutic synthesis that happens when talk and touch are combined that is beyond what only talk or touch can access.

SATT talk is simple and effective. Sometimes the body remembers while the mind “forgets” and SATT fills in these memory gaps so that the client can live in the present and heal the past.

A present touch is a foundation of the work. People can be frozen emotionally, physically and energetically in the past. By bringing a present touch to that awareness the SATT practitioner builds a bridge with the client to the present moment.

There is no diagnosis or fixing, in this approach, because the fundamental belief is that everyone is as well as they can be, at any given time. There is simply an exploration of what is and what could be. Awareness brings the possibility of choice and the client determines their direction of change.

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For further information about the Training program and/or if you are interested in a private session.